19 Tivet 5780
16 January 2020
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
On the Gaza border:
One of the dozens of explosive balloons that have landed in the Eshkol region yesterday and today.
In the midst of the massive balloon barrage today, a member of the Hamas “Return March Steering Committee” issued a statement saying that balloon launches are carried out “unilaterally” by “young Palestinians trying to remove the Gaza blockade” whereas missile fire cannot be undertaken “without joint approval from Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”
In Judea and Samaria:
The T-Junction in Gush Etzion, between Nahaliel and Neve Tzuf, Tekoa, the Halhul Mountains, just outside of Hevron, Beitin, A-Ram, Beit Ummar, the Karmi Tzur Junction, between Hizma and Anatim, Luban a-Sharqiya, and Al-Aruv were a dozen places yesterday where Israeli were attacked with Molotovs and “rocks”.
The above locations were reported by residents on the ground to kolhayehudi, rotter, and Rescue Judea and Samaria.
The Gaza border leaks like a sieve . . .
These strawberries should have been shipped to BDS supporters (read below to understand why). A split screen of the strawberries confiscated by the police i Ramle.
It is not just that the Gaza border fence is at best ramshackle in spots letting infiltrators go into Israel and return to Gaza at will, it is amazingly porous in terms of smuggling.
This morning we had yet another example.
167 cartons of strawberries weighing more than a ton were confiscated in the Ramle shuk (market) by police of the Ministry of Agriculture’s Crime Unit. The strawberries were subsequently destroyed because of the health risk they posed.
Crops in Gaza are routinely sprayed with dangerous pesticides and watered with human sewage. Europeans who flock to their supermarket shelves to buy “humanitarian” produce from Gaza should remember that.
Turkey positions itself to fill the Iranian vacuum . . .
Is Iranian influence in the Arab world on decline? Perhaps, though this is by no means certain. However, as the money faucet from Tehran slows to a drip, there is another country poised to move in.
That country is Turkey.
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Hell-bent on restoring the “Ottoman Empire”, Turkish PM Taycip Erdogan has been funneling millions of dollars into Jerusalem to try to change facts on the ground. It comes as no surprise that one often sees Turkish flags when traveling around in Judea and Samaria.
Erdogan’s adventurism is well-documented in Syria where he is intent on wiping out the Kurds, but now Erdogan is turning his attention elsewhere.
To Libya.
After proclaiming several days ago that Turkey has every right to Libya because it was part of the Ottoman Empire, Erdogan has now sent Turkish soldiers into Libya to ostensibly fight on the side of the so-called Libyan government in the current civil war.
TODAY’S BLOG:
“No Longer Worthy Of Human Habitation”
The aftermath of the latest missile barrage fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza against the people of southern Israel can perhaps best be encapsulated by three quotes from yesterday.
Herewith:
1. “Hamas is not behind the recent launches.”
Just as we predicted, an unnamed senior Israeli government official appeared hours after the missile strikes yesterday “confirming” that Hamas terrorists did not carry out the launches. Not surprisingly, this “confirmation” was timed for release just as unnamed senior Hamas officials “confirmed” the same thing.
What a sad joke.
2. “We were surprised by the rocket launches from the Gaza Strip; there were no indications that missiles would be fired.”
This was an IDF spokesman saying what the IDF usually says after missile fire from Gaza. Unlike the IDF which typically warns Hamas before we are going to “attack” buildings and sand dunes, Hamas does not return the favor. The IDF spokesman continued on to say that the IDF General Command believes that “rogue Islamic Jihad” (“rogue” is the new favorite word of the IDF) members launched the missiles—and that Iron Dome batteries are currently being moved from northern to southern Israel.
What a sad state of affairs.
3. Resident of a Gaza border community and television panel member: ”I live in a community along the Gaza border with my husband and my children. The missiles are no longer even an item for the news anymore.”
Panel host Avri Gilad: “This community is part of the state of Israel, but all of our communities on the border are no longer worthy of human habitation. That’s the truth, and no one tells it.”
How true, and what a sad statement about the reality of the Gaza border: tens of thousands of Israelis are living in an area which is no longer suitable for life because of constant missile attacks, fires caused by explosive balloons and kites, and the threat of terrorist infiltration.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.